Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 12:49:28 03/03/03
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On March 03, 2003 at 10:04:51, Jouni Uski wrote: >I finally bought new P4 2,4Ghz PC. I installed Windows98 SE and Fritz8. I tried >to run engine-engine matches, but after one hour or similar they always stop. >And I get different kind of error messages: invalid page fault, error in >chessprogram8, error in user.exe, error in mfcxx.dll. AAAARGH! Is PC broken? > >Definitely no overclockin but out of box PC. Is win98 may be too slow for >2,4Ghz? Or what? >Any ideas? I cannot say about other programs, because I only run Fritz. >Problem happens with native engines so this isn't UCI.dll problem. Also in >running test suites it sometimes stops. These sort of semi-random crashes tend to be either: 1. bad memory, or: 2. DIMMs not properly seated in the socket. If there's nothing obviously (visually) wrong, try this: http://home.earthlink.net/~alegr/download/memtest.htm (Linux users have memtest86, which does a similar thing). As a consolation, I bought my Athlon XP 2500+, switched it on, went out for half an hour and came back to a fiercely desiccating atmosphere; in transit the cable for the processor fan had jumped out. By a miracle there was no damage, even though it turned out that a feature in the BIOS which should've turned the machine off at a certain temperature was turned off by default (!) Alastair
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